Re: two more oddities with the fs/Kconfig file

Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 08:34:06 +0100

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 02:07:13AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> there are a few options that are categorized as simply
> "bool", with no following label -- examples being UMSDOS,
> QUOTACTL, and a couple of others. without a label on that
> line, the option is not displayed for selection anywhere
> on the menu. is this deliberate?
>...

Yes, this is what was called define_bool in the old kconfig.

E.g.

config QUOTACTL
bool
depends on XFS_QUOTA || QUOTA
default y

says that QUOTACTL is automatically selected if XFS_QUOTA or QUOTA is
selected. This is a config option that is never visible to the user
configuring the kernel.

> rday

cu
Adrian

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